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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Zaheer on August 28, 2015, 09:52:12 AM
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A few of you may have seen the Clochan which I made a long time ago, and which was featured in Mason's incredible Mordheim thread. Well, being a glutton for punishment and having felt like I could do a lot better since I finished the last hut all that time ago, I've had another crack, taking a more methodical approach. I hope that you like what I have so far, as ever I've noticed a whole host of things to address since taking the photos, but I present it here warts 'n all for c&c.
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20150828_094520_zpswkemtk9a.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20150828_094520_zpswkemtk9a.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20150828_093139_zpsprff4fgt.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20150828_093139_zpsprff4fgt.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20150828_093130_zpsoawxcbzy.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20150828_093130_zpsoawxcbzy.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20150828_093119_zps902vj1pz.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20150828_093119_zps902vj1pz.jpg.html)
This will be available for sale at some point I imagine, but I'll need to knock a few more masters together before getting the silicon in. Any requests?
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Simply beautiful build, Zaheer. I'll be buying a couple, for sure!
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Awesome stuff. o_o
What have you constructed it out of?
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Bigger than the last one (which gets a lot of use in my games). Count me in for one of these too, as for requests......a small rectangular version with turf roof, or even without the roof as scratchbuilding a roof l could probably manage.
My take on v1 is here;
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=43107.0
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That really Looks the Business :-*
PS..Your Stone walls look excellent as well.
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Thank you everyone.
Dijit, each 'stone' is a snapped piece of plaster, it's a case of snap glue snap glue...
Robh, I'm working on a version of the Gallarus Oratory next, I think I may make it a two-part cast which could take the corbelled roof or a thatched version.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Gallarus_Oratory_Rainbow_20070916.jpg)
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Looks amazing! Both buildings will be great e.g. for a Irish warband in SAGA.
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Add me to the list, mate.
The first one was great and paints up really easy.
Highly recommended!
8)
Here is my take on the first version that Zaheer made...
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j478/themason73/hutandscenes005.jpg)
The new ones look great and should take to drybrushing in the same way, very easily, so I see no reason why I should not grab myself another.
:D
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Looks very good indeed.
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Excellent stuff :-*.
I was once involved in the making of a travellers rest shelter something like this for real at Kielder Reservoir!
Darrell.
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Very nice! :o
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I've run off the first few casts, if you'd like one at 'mates rates', please send me a pm!
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PM sent........ still using smelly resin?
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PM sent........ still using smelly resin?
Thankfully not, for everyone concerned!
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I posted everyones hut on monday, I hope they're with you all soon! I am in Malta until wednesday next week so feel free to pm me for more orders in the meantime.
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It's not quite finished - there's cleaning up, final texturing and bubble filling to do - but I think you get the idea. I don't think I'll ever attempt a 'slate' built drystone building this size ever again!
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20151009_110533_zpsydei2kvu.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20151009_110533_zpsydei2kvu.jpg.html)
It'll be cast as the hut was, so if you'd like one, please drop me a PM.
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As the creator and former seller of a lot of complex terrain I have to say kudos for that fine piece. The love you have for your work shines through!
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As the creator and former seller of a lot of complex terrain I have to say kudos for that fine piece. The love you have for your work shines through!
It does look the dogs danglies! :-* :-* :-*
Did you make the master out of individual bricks?
Darrell.
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As the creator and former seller of a lot of complex terrain I have to say kudos for that fine piece. The love you have for your work shines through!
Thank you, although love isn't the word right at this moment!
Did you make the master out of individual bricks?
Yes... :'( (and thank you)
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Thank you, although love isn't the word right at this moment!
Yes... :'( (and thank you)
Well, it was certainly worth it!! 8) 8) 8)
Darrell.
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So I have whacked on a pretty quick and nasty paintjob onto the buildings and taken some photos, I will probably re-do them or get someone competent to take some but they should do for now I hope!
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20151028_151629_zps0xrgvzm8.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20151028_151629_zps0xrgvzm8.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20151028_153054_zpssbrrcs0j.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20151028_153054_zpssbrrcs0j.jpg.html)
(I really had no historically appropriate figures painted for scale pics, I have to rectify that!)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20151028_153418_zpsqmnxsqrr.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20151028_153418_zpsqmnxsqrr.jpg.html)
As ever, if you'd like one please let me know!
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Well, that looks good to me! Not nasty in the least.
I've just received my oratory, and can testify it is a brilliant and crisply cast model. I'm really looking forward to painting and finishing it :)
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Nothing wrong with that, mate.
It looks lovely and certainly shows all the detail well.
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I have one too and hope to get some paint on it in the next week as I ow have a little more time on my hands.
;)
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Brilliant! ;D
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The photo's and paint job are quite good enough ol'boy. Good and crisp, painting shows the detail well with out any distraction from superfluous fluff, on some nice terrain and a figure for scale. Ticks all the boxes in my book.
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Right then. Had an enjoyable few hours at the weekend painting and basing my oratory... :)
It really is an exquisitely made model. The material is so smooth and fine that I assumed it was resin until I accidentally scraped it. Actually, it's plaster. So this is one piece of scenery you don't want to drop on the floor.
I've mounted mine on a plasticard base because I think it helps to make a building look a bit more grounded. Plus it gives the opportunity for some extravagant tuftage ;)
It's a very versatile model which will serve for anything from the immediately post-Roman dawn of Celtic Christianity, right through the Dark Ages, medieval period and beyond. Think Renaissance Ireland for instance. It'll also be a nice addition for my Game of Thrones project.
I must also say, having spent a lot of time visiting shrines and monuments all around the Atlantic west of the British Isles, from the Western isles to the extremities of Pembrokeshire, and from the west of Counties Cork and Kerry to the farthest reaches of Cornwall, it's an incredibly evocative little model. Very beautifully done.
All I can say, Chris, is - please make some more :D
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_24_09_0.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_24_11_3.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_24_10_1.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_24_10_2.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_32_32_1.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_24_11_4.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_32_32_2.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_32_32_0.JPG)
(http://leadadventureforum.com/gallery/23/577_02_11_15_11_32_33_3.JPG)
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Very fine painting, Captain.
Great looking building.
Love it.
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Very nice, Richard.
Your paint job certainly brings out all the detail on that beauty.
:-* :-*
I must get around to finishing my own one soon..... ::)
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Thats an amazingly realistic building! :o
Nice PJ Richard! :-*
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:-* :-* Great paintjob and photography as ever cap'n, and thanks for the kind words! It certainly makes the building more 'real' i think, may have to go back and moss up the 'shop copy'. I'm in two minds as to wether to provide bases for the buildings or not, I feel they may be a bit fragile. I may make interior inserts but just leave bases out of the equation.
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Thanks Chris. I don't think you need to provide bases - they're easy enough to add. At least this way people have the choice, to base or not to base :)
If you want to use these pics, feel free. If you would like higher-res copies, let me know.
:)
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That is just... wow.
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I've just set up a webstore... www.fogoumodels.co.uk (http://www.fogoumodels.co.uk) where you can get hold of the oratory and the huts.
I LOVE that oratory model.
My Oirish need one of those!
I see you say they're for sale - how do I get one and how much are they?
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Belter. :-*
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Marvelous both! :-*
Would you consider making a brooch or maybe two?
I'd be a client for sure!
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Marvelous both! :-*
Would you consider making a brooch or maybe two?
I'd be a client for sure!
Thank you, I do occasionally consider making a broch, then I wake up and have to change the sheets.
I think I may well attempt a broch at some point, but it's going to be a little while yet. I have a few 'medium' sized structures coming up next.
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Are you still thinking of doing something in 15mm? A selection of thise drystone walls you showed would be ideal for mini Frostgrave.
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Hopefully no-one will mind if I re-deposit these photos here from my Workbench thread...
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20160121_202723_zpsexwcykir.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20160121_202723_zpsexwcykir.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20160121_201729_zpsjeo0ouxz.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20160121_201729_zpsjeo0ouxz.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20160121_201752_zpsbimbwe31.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20160121_201752_zpsbimbwe31.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/20160121_201621_zpsng9zktqe.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/20160121_201621_zpsng9zktqe.jpg.html)
It's now at the boring/anxious phase of getting it ready for the silicon.
Are you still thinking of doing something in 15mm? A selection of thise drystone walls you showed would be ideal for mini Frostgrave.
Sorry for missing this Nick. I am planning on creating little 'porches' which will convert the door size down to 15/18mm for fantasy purposes.
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I wish there was a chin-on-the-floor smiley. You sir are nuts and completely brilliant!
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Do you by any chance do a Broch?
I ask as we're in the middle of a Haggis (Lion) Rampant campaign set in the Border Marches of England and Scotland.
Darrell.
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Beautiful work on all the buildings! :-* Bookmarked your page for future purchases :)
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Thanks all! And yes, it does your equilibrium no good!
Do you by any chance do a Broch?
I don't, and I'm not likely to anytime soon as it would require even more work than this. However, I may be able to use castings/molds to knock something up. I'll have to have a think...
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Thanks all! And yes, it does your equilibrium no good!
I don't, and I'm not likely to anytime soon as it would require even more work than this. However, I may be able to use castings/molds to knock something up. I'll have to have a think...
Thanks.... I'll wait and see what you come up with :)
Cheers,
Darrell.
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Molded, cast, painted, and up for sale very soon.
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20160311_112604_zpsg2eebyi8.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20160311_112604_zpsg2eebyi8.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20160311_112310_zpsdnitadim.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20160311_112310_zpsdnitadim.jpg.html)
(http://i1284.photobucket.com/albums/a576/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/Fogou%20Models/20160311_111905_zpsumilslp2.jpg) (http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Shattered-Dreams-Parkway/media/Fogou%20Models/20160311_111905_zpsumilslp2.jpg.html)
(Because I think the natural light really sets off the model).
If there are any master painter/photographers out there who like to models, give me shout ::)
Chris.